Recipe - Oatmeal Crusty Top Apple Pie

One fourth cup Rolled oats
1 cup Allpurpose flour
One half teaspoon Salt
One fourth cup Pure lard
3 tablespoon Cold water

FILLING
4 cup Peeled; cut or sliced up apples
Three fourths cup Brown sugar
One fourth teaspoon Cinnamon

TOPPING
One fourth cup Rolled oats
One fourth cup Allpurpose flour
2 tablespoon Brown sugar
One fourth teaspoon Cinnamon
One fourth cup Margarine

For pastry, stir oats, flour and salt, then cut in lard until mixture
resembles coarse crumbs. Blend in water and form into ball of dough with
fingertips.

Let stand 5 minutes, then roll to fit an 8 or 9" pie plate. It is a bit
tender to lift, so pass a spatula under as you fold it in two. If it
breaks, simply join it together.

To fill, stir apples, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Pack into pie shell.

To top, mix oats, flour, brown sugar and cinnamon. Cut in margarine until
mixture is crumblike, then cover apples.

Bake for 35 minutes at 375 degrees F, or until golden brown on top.

NOTES : This unusual pie is full of crunch and nutlike flavor.

Recipe by: The Canadiana Cookbook/Mme Jehane Benoit/1970 Posted to TNT
Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by Bill & Leilani Devries
devriesb@cyberbeach.net on Aug 28, 1997